#sm

Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster! ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#nationalism

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. ↗

— John Adams

#fiscal-policy #national-debt #nationalism

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#prozac-nation #nationalism

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#nationalism #nationalism

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity ↗

— Stephen King

#analogy #disapproval #motto #pacifism #paradox

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#activist #competitive #gender-stereotypes #stereotypes

A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true. ↗

— Ron DeLegge II

#prejudices #racism #stereotypes #racism

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. ↗

— Albert Camus

#myth

There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#inferiority-complex #alcohol

The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#hatred #materialism #problems #alcohol